“Unveiling Grief: Eiren Caffall Reveals the Hidden Wisdom in ‘The Mourner’s Bestiary'”
AE: I wonder who thought of that? Look at that weird horseshoe crab and see if we can get some blood out of it.
EC: I mean, scientists are amazing, and they think of all sorts of things that regular people don’t. There’s so much history in how we’ve related to the animals in the ecosystem. It may seem like, “Oh, well, yeah, there’s a horseshoe crab. My kid picks that up at the beach.” There is a personal relationship to it, and a personal narrative. And then there’s how our lives are altered by those connections most of us don’t think about most of the time. I hope that, with Mourner’s, I’m enabling people to get curious about what’s happening outside of human spaces, or even in their backyards. Like, “Oh, I see that monarch! I see less of them this year. What does that mean?”
